Fetchnews
retrieves news articles from a peer news server and feeds them to a
Cyrus server.
Fetchnews
connects to the peer specified by
peername,
requests new articles since the time stored in
tstampfile
and feeds them to
servername.
Fetchnews
reads its configuration options out of the
imapd.conf(5)
file unless specified otherwise by -C.
OPTIONS
-C config-file
Read configuration options from config-file.
-s servername
Hostname of the Cyrus server (with optional port) to which articles
should be fed. Defaults to "localhost:nntp".
-n
Don't use the NEWNEWS command.
Fetchnews
will keep track of the high and low water marks for each group and use
them to fetch new articles.
-y
Use 4 instead of 2 digits for year. 2-digits are rfc977- but not y2k-compliant.
-w wildmat
Wildmat pattern specifying which newsgroups to search for new
articles. Defaults to "*".
-f tstampfile
File in which to read/write the timestamp of when articles were last
retrieved. Defaults to "newsstamp" located in
configdir
as specified by the configuration options.